complete picture
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcompleteandpicture
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complete
adjective
uk/kəmˈpliːt/us/kəmˈpliːt/
very great or to the largest ...
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picture
noun
uk/ˈpɪk.tʃər/us/ˈpɪk.tʃɚ/
a drawing, painting, ...
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(Definition ofcompleteandpicturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcomplete picture
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In general, there is agreement that all of the approaches capture different pieces of the puzzle, while no single indicator can yield acompletepicture.
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However, it is difficult to obtain acompletepicture.
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Some additional work will therefore be required before acompletepictureof risk within mental deficiency policy can be truly uncovered.
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Such comparisons will yield a morecompletepictureof the relationship between cognition and language in the bilingual mind than previous studies.
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On the other hand, for a morecompletepictureof the process he describes some knowledge of those areas is required for a fuller understanding.
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Then acompletepicturewill emerge, and a confident prediction of the charge acquired by a dust particle in different circumstances will become possible.
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For a morecompletepictureof the flow and to explore a wider range of parameters one must turn to a numerical solution.
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Together with numerical data on global phenomena this gives acompletepictureof the organizing center.
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As not all program participants were interviewed, acompletepictureof the participants' perceptions was not achieved.
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No observational measure based on a single person's interactions can give acompletepictureof the child's communicative competence either.
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In addition, by colour-copying thecompletepictureseveral times, distinguishable marks between parts were made less clear.
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The regions of validity of the various approximations overlap to an extent sufficient to provide acompletepictureof the solution.
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From both perspectives this is far from thecompletepicture.
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This detailed research then needs to be reconnected with large-scale quantitative survey data in order to provide acompletepicture.
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The examples that they chose may not constitute acompletepictureof recent decisions.
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Acompletepicturebased on numerical computations then follows.
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Inclusion of election results and demographic variables known to be predictive of attitudes on the issue in question gives a morecompletepicture.
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In our opinion this gives a morecompletepictureand is less sensitive to outliers or extreme changes.
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In order to get acompletepictureof how and why policy changes occur, however, the role of learning cannot be dismissed.
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I would also have welcomed more use of data, especially a common data set across countries, to provide a morecompletepicture.
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